Mae West: Speaks Man-Talk

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 13 of  13, the final segment.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Speaks a man's language • •
• • Hoyt wrote: They know what kind of roles she has played and when Mae comes into the room all the nice little Hollywood girls cast anxious glances at their boy friends and decide it's about time to go home.

• • Hoyt wrote: For Mae speaks a man's language. She loves prizefights and things like that.
• • Hoyt wrote: Hollywood had never seen anything quite like her. She's so doggone honest and sincere and real and — well — just what she is, Mae West.
• • Hoyt wrote: I asked her if the roles she played didn't make people misunderstand her  — make them think she, herself, was that sort of woman.
• • Hoyt wrote: "Certainly!" said Mae. And then I asked her what she did to counteract that impression. 
• • Mae West is not trying to change your opinion of her • •
• • Hoyt wrote: "Well, I'll tell you," Mae West said. "I don't try to change anybody's opinion. A person who is interested in the sort of woman I characterize likes it a lot better if he thinks I'm that sort, too. And people who are not interested in women like that — well, they're just not interested at all. So I just don't bother.”
• • Hoyt wrote:Mae West added, "People can get any sort of impression about me they want to have.  And I'm still not doing so bad!"
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview has now been concluded. That was fun!
• • Tell us what you thought about Mae's conflicting accounts about what inspired "Diamond Lil."
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Thursday, 9 March 1933 • •
• • On Thursday, 9 March 1933, a letter was sent by Will H. Hays, President, MPPDA, to James Wingate, Director, Studio Relations, Association of Motion Picture Producers. The bone they had to pick was Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong." Hays emphasized: "I cannot too strongly urge you to proceed in the strict enforcement of the Code. ..."
• • Did Will Hays tuck into others as much as he cut into Mae West?
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Vernon Scott wrote: The wailing may be somewhat subdued but Mae West is still a siren, at least in her own mind, and she's back at work in a new movie appropriately titled "Sextette."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A column on Hollywood stars mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West Trades in Diamonds Against Day of Film Fade-out • •
• • Star Has Become Shrewd Bargainer in Gems And Does Own Buying and Selling • •
• • (A.P.) Quietly, lest there be "a little trouble up at my place," Mae West is adding authority to her title, Diamond Lil.
• • She has been buying, trading and selling diamonds. She has calipers, forceps, small karat-scales, a jeweler's vise, chamois bags, plenty of black velvet trays, a powerful electric lamp, and two or three of those little black magnifying glasses that you screw into your eye like a monocle.  
• • Thus armed, Mae West will take on all who come with diamonds to sell or trade. ...
• • Source:  Associated Press; syndicated on Wednesday, 17 February 1937
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,686th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

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Mae West: Jim in a Derby

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 12 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Jim Timony wears a derby • •

• • Hoyt wrote: And then along came a lad whose last name is Timony. He's a brunette gentleman who wears a derby hat, smokes big black cigars, and doesn't mind getting hard-boiled when the occasion demands. You'll see him around backstage or wherever Mae is.
• • Hoyt wrote: Big Jim gives her plenty of good advice and Mae has liked him in a big way for a couple of years now.
• • Hoyt wrote: James Timony is what is known as a character.  
• • Hoyt wrote: Yessir, it's men that Mae knows best — and men who like her best. Then in Hollywood, she found she got on much better with the men than the women.
• • Hoyt wrote: Women sort of resent Mae. They know her reputation.
• • Mae West: Speaks a man's language • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview concludes tomorrow with excerpt number 13.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 8 March 1978 • •
• • Mae West was discussed in a few news items prepared for Variety Magazine's issue dated for Wednesday, 8 March 1978.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Mae West turned over her business affairs to the New York lawyer known as Big Jim; her savings and her activities had come to the point where they needed special management. Timony proved to be the sagacious manager Mae needed, and with his advice and grooming their associations became more and more profitable for both.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Do I love Jim Timony? Yes. We love each other like Potash loved Perlmutter or like Montgomery must love Ward. Like two old business cronies."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Modern Screen discussed Mae West.
• • Modern Screen wrote: We've finally run down those rumors about Mae West. There is a new Mae. Proof that satisfied us was that she no longer will ask the lads to come up and see her sometime. For she's given up that sixth-story apartment in Hollywood, and moved into a Beverly Hills bungalow.
• • Modern Screen wrote: And instead of lolling on white bear rugs in her leisure moments, Mae now devotes herself to raising vegetables in the back yard. It's all sort of beautiful. ...
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for July 1937
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,685th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

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Mae West: Broadway Outlaw

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 11 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Diamond Lil needed to be heavier • •
• • Hoyt wrote: "So I ate my head off," said Mae, "and opened in 'Diamond Lil' weighing 130."

• • Hoyt wrote: "Sex" had been running on Broadway for some time before the law decided that it was offensive [sic]. So Mae was summoned to appear in court.
• • Hoyt wrote: Also there was the little matter of a play called "The Drag" which she had authored but in which she did not star.
• • Hoyt wrote: Later she wrote and produced "Pleasure Man" and the City of New York wanted to see her about that, too.
• • Hoyt wrote: She appeared in court smiling [sic] and swapped wisecrack for wisecrack with the city fathers [sic].
• • Hoyt wrote: All during the time of her extremely spectacular Broadway success, don't imagine that there weren't men in her life. Mae knows plenty about men.
• • Mae West: Jim Timony wears a derby • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Monday, 5 March 1934 in The Hollywood Reporter • •
• • Their March 5, 1934 issue reported this: "It Ain't No Sin" (Rehearsing); Cast: Mae West, George Raft, Duke Ellington and Orchestra.
• • "Beef Trust Wanted" • •
• • Their March 5, 1934 issue also noted: Leo McCarey is searching for a Beef Trust chorus. Director wants a bulging line for the Mae West picture, "It Ain't No Sin."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West was poured into sequins for her first part in "Night After Night" with George Raft.  Raft said Mae stole the show.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never go to parties. That's why I live so quiet, though — I don't want to disillusion 'em by exhibiting myself as a good, quiet, hard-working woman who goes home nights, works on stories, and goes to bed.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about breasts and curves mentioned Mae West.
• • "Brains, Not 'IT,' Says Mae West of the Curves" • •
• • A Hollywood Correspondent wrote: We have heard a lot about the necessity for girls to have "It" in order to be a success with men, but Mae West, the most discussed star of the moment, contradicts Elinor Glyn, founder of the "It" philosophy, and says: "All that a girl needs is brains."
• • "Beautiful and dumb girls have had their day. They're finished," Mae West told our correspondent. "If you're clever, you win. Of course, you don't let men know you are clever, understand; you might as well be dumb if you do. No, you needn't be beautiful; you just make the men think you are beautiful, and that's not hard. In the first place, you have to know all about yourself; your good points, and your not-so-good ones." ...
• • Source: Australian Women's Weekly; published on Saturday, 3 March 1934
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,684th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Lil's Legend

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 10 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman  • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: His ex-girlfriend, Diamond Lil, then inspired Mae • •
• • Hoyt wrote: And the man continued by saying, “Come to think of it, Mae — you look like her when you put your head down and sort of look up through your eyelashes with that hot look."
• • "Yeah?" said Mae, "Who was your friend?"    
• • "They called her 'Diamond Lil'," he told Mae.

• • Hoyt wrote: And that's how Mae got the idea for her greatest success.
• • Hoyt wrote: According to this man, Diamond Lil was a real character of the 1890s —as beautiful as Lillian Russell and much more spectacular.
• • Hoyt wrote: Mae didn't know whether she could play an 1890s belle or not. Her mother told her she'd have to put on a lot more weight. At the time she tipped the scales at just 110 [sic].
• • Mae West: Diamond Lil must be heavier • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 4 March 1936 • •
• • The flapdoodle over "Klondike Annie" was discussed in Variety's issue dated for 4 March 1936. Coverage appeared in Hollywood Citizen News on 4 March 1936 also.
• • Mae West felt that her earnings, which approximated William Randolph Hearst's stupendous salary, made him envious. Perhaps Hearst reconsidered the lost ad revenue to his publications because he ended this embargo by the end of 1936.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • You will find Mae West at prize fights, big or small.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I'll match my private life with any woman's."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Amazon book review discussed Mae West.
• • Damon Devine wrote: Tim Malachosky, despite popular belief, was not Mae West's "personal secretary for 10 years" and I have in my possession a SIGNED letter by him acknowledging this. It was considerably less time, not to mention that Mae West had several guys tending to her mail, setting up the folding chairs for her guests, etc.  
• • Damon Devine added: The letter goes on to reveal that Tim Malachosky was selling copies of West's 'Mae West on Sex, Health and ESP' book mere WEEKS after her death in November 1980, at $10 a pop. ...
• • Source: Excerpt from a Mae West book review written by Damon Devine; posted on Amazon on Wednesday, 4 March 2009
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,683rd blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: The Real D-Lil

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil (and other particulars) while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 9 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: The guy who described Diamond Lil, his old flame • •
• • Hoyt wrote: And the sensational play "Sex," which she wrote herself and in which she played a harlot, was the result.
• • Hoyt wrote: Mae West gets her material in strange ways.
• • The man who told her about his ex-girlfriend, Diamond Lil • •

• • Hoyt wrote: One night she was coming into her hotel when another guest at the hotel — a man who had had a bit of a past himself — said to her, "You know, when you wear all those diamonds (the ones, incidentally, that were stolen in Hollywood) you remind me of an old sweetheart of mine who had more rocks than any gal I ever knew.
• • Mae West: His ex-girlfriend, Diamond Lil, then inspired Mae's character for the New York stage • • ...
• • Photo: Juarez, a South American sex trafficker (Jack LaRue) kisses the hand of Diamond Lil (Mae West) in Suicide Hall as her lover Gus Jordan (unseen) looks on in 1928.
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Thursday, 3 March 1927 • •
• • No, Mae did not take the stand on 3 March 1927 • •
• • A familiar image of a smiling Mae West at her "Sex" trial in New York City on Thursday, 3 March 1927, has the incorrect caption that she was "on the witness stand." However, Mae did not take the stand in March nor in April 1927. Why?
• • Mae's motivations are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West" during the chaotic courtroom scene [Act I, Scene 5].
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Baby LeRoy took his first steps yesterday in the dressing room of Mae West. She sure gets 'em to come up and see her at a young age, I'd say.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I take it out in the open and laugh at it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Walter Winchell mentioned Mae West.
• • Walter Winchell wrote: In "Bitter Rice," Silvana Mangano is XXXier than both Mae West and Jane Russell.  ...
• • Source: Item in Walter Winchell's column in The Daily Mirror; rpt in an ad on Friday, 2 March 1951
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,682nd blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Lowbrow End

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while she was a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 8 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: "I'll give 'em something different." • •
• • Hoyt wrote: Mae West was the first person — according to Mae West — to do the shimmie on any stage! That was way back when she was in musical shows.

• • Hoyt wrote: Another story goes: Mae West was a member of an acrobatic act in vaudeville. She lifted what was supposed to be a 500-pound weight.    
• • Hoyt wrote: When she got her chance to get out of the lowbrow end of theatrical life and to be a producer and star in her own right she figured — and she figured smart: "Every Broadway actress has her own line," Mae said. "I'll give 'em something different."
• • Mae West:The guy who described Diamond Lil, his old flame • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Sunday, 2 March 1913 in NYC • •
• • It was on Sunday, 2 March 1913 that Mae West began a one week booking at Hammerstein's Victoria in the theatre district on West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • As she removed some of her diamond jewelry, Mae West said: "Let me pull some of my harness off and then I'll give you a few words of wisdom."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Beards can do one of two things for men. One type becomes very distinguished looking, and the other achieves a primitive, sexy look. Some women say they couldn't bear to kiss a man with whiskers. All I've got to say is, whiskers or not, he's a man, isn't he?"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about the BBC mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West, Elvis Presley, Attila the Hun, Benjamin Disraeli, Walt Disney, and Good Queen Bess have all featured on "Great Lives" over the BBC. ...
• • Source: Announcement: "Great Lives with Matthew Parris" for the BBC; posted on Thursday, 1 March 2012
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,681st blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Lavender Dress

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 7 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: She wants what she wants • •
• • Hoyt wrote: And then turning to her mother, Mae West insisted, "You said I could have any doll I wanted."
• • Hoyt wrote: They finally saw it was no use trying to dissuade her. And, finally, the last two ladders were brought from the back of this Brooklyn, New York toy store and little Mae — the gal who always gets what she wants — proudly bore home the lavender-dressed doll.    

• • Hoyt wrote: It was this same stubborn and precocious child who, at the age of six, panicked a Brooklyn audience on amateur night by doing imitations of Eva Tanguay and other famous stars.
• • Hoyt wrote: That vaudeville training began her theatrical career — a career that was to lead her through stock, through vaudeville into musical shows and at last to make her author, producer and star of the sensational "Sex" and "Diamond Lil" and would eventually to lead her to Hollywood and the screen in "Night After Night" and "She Done Him Wrong."
• • Photo: Mae West poses with the cast of "Sex" in 1926 • •
• • Mae West: "I'll give 'em something different." • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Tuesday, 1 March 1927 in Olean Evening Times • •
• • "The Drag," an exposition of psychopathic conduct . . . • •
• • In their issue dated for Tuesday, 1 March 1927, The Olean Evening Times took Mae to task for "Sex" as well as "The Drag," which the reporter Virginia Swan described as "an exposition of psychopathic conduct." Was Mae West chastened after the arrest? "Sure, I know what audiences like," Mae assured the news reporters. "And when it comes in sex portrayals, I know my onions. My play is true to life. And how can anyone suppress truth?"
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Before she achieved success in her first starring picture, women had to be slim, or they were out of fashion. But Mae West has changed that.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "You never hear about good women in history."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about Hollywood films mentioned Mae West.
• • Modern Screen wrote: The biggest battle of the season was the battle of the false eyelashes, staged by Mae West and Alice Brady during the making of “Go West Young Man."
• • Modern Screen wrote: When Mae appeared with long eye adornment. Alice showed up with longer ones. It went on days, but Miss W. won out by the simple procedure of cutting Miss Brady's part here and there. ...
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for December 1936
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,680th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: He Begged Her

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. It is Part 6 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Wanted the doll on the top shelf • •
• • Hoyt wrote: Mae West pointed upwards. "I want that one," she said.    
• • Hoyt wrote: The salesman smiled and began to look for a doll like it on one of the lower shelves, but found none. He begged her to chose another, pointing out the merits of the more easily reached ones.
• • Hoyt wrote: Instead Mae stood there, pointing. "No. I want that one."

• • Hoyt wrote: The store clerk explained how inaccessible was the toy. They offered her bigger dolls, more easily reached. They even pointed to much prettier dolls.
• • Hoyt wrote: But Mae shook her head. Clearly, Mae was not interested. "I want that one."
• • Mae West: She wants what she wants • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 26 February 1936 • •
• • Hollywood Citizen News ran this article on Wednesday, 26 February 1936: "Mae West Mum in Lubitsch, Timony Debate."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The beret Influence is most marked in many of the new millinery models, while others are Tyrolean in their inspiration, and a third type, the new Mae West hats, are wide of brim and are made of velvet swathed with silver or golden cords.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The guy's trying to cash in again! I got a new picture out and he's pulling the same stunt he pulled the last time one was released." [Mae's comments were in reference to Frank Wallace's bid for alimony and half of her assets on Friday, 28 February 1936.]
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on shame, disgrace, and TV mentioned Mae West.
• • British journalist Marina Hyde wrote: The idea of disgrace being a career opportunity is not especially new. "I expect it will be the making of me," Mae West purred in 1927 of her arrest on vice charges relating to her play Sex, and indeed it was. But it has never been easier to bounce back, and TV is the primary redemptive force. ...
• • Source: The Guardian [UK]; posted on Friday, 16 February 2007
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,679th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Was Insulted

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 5 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Was promised a doll • •
• • Hoyt wrote: But all this cajolery was no use. Mae had been insulted. Mae was going home. And because her mother adored the child and was later to sit in a theatre watching that same daughter play in "Sex," "Diamond Lil," etc., and see nothing bad about the plays, she put on her hat and coat and went home with the little girl.

• • Hoyt wrote: Some months later the mother promised Mae a doll. She could have any one she chose and together mother and daughter journeyed to the store. There were hundreds of dolls in great piles. All of them were lovely but right at the very top was a doll dressed in a lavender frock. This doll was perched precariously at the top of the pile — almost touching the ceiling.
• • Mae West: Wanted the doll on the top shelf • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Tuesday, 25 February 1913 • •
• • The announcement that "Mae West, the comedienne" was appearing at the Grand ran in the Atlantic Journal on Tuesday, 25 February 1913.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In Mae West's newest motion picture, what many viewers will enjoy most is Mae West's rendition of the aria "My Heart Opens at the Sound of Your Voice" from the opera ''Samson and Delilah."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "You know, my audience wants me bad. I'm always sensational."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about Hollywood films mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West's Next Picture • •
• • "Klondike" is the tentative title of Mae West's next picture. It has an Alaskan background.
• • Lillian Kilgannon, who plays cigarette girls in the movies, stands in for Mae West and Kilgannon's beautiful legs are used in close-ups.
• • Directors say she has the most feminine and shapely limbs in pictures. That is why Lillian's legs are used when close-ups are needed of a star's legs, that is a star whose figure may not be all that is desired by the cameraman.
• • Lillian Kilgannon wears tights and an abbreviated costume as a cigarette girl in night club sequences. And she dons a blonde wig and acts as Mae West's stand-in because she is the same height, weight and coloring. Her hair is darker.  ...
• • Source: The Boston Globe; published on Wednesday, 24 April 1935
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,678th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Fluttery Woman

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 4 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: No, you must not touch that! • •
• • Hoyt wrote: The hostess — a fluttery woman — ran to her. "No, no, dear, you mustn't touch that. That isn't for little girls to play with."

• • Hoyt wrote: Without a word Mae walked into the bedroom, got her own coat and hat and her mother's. She carried her mother's wraps to her and said, "Here put these on. We're going home."
• • Hoyt wrote: The hostess begged them to stay. She lured Mae with promises of the lovely cakes that would arrive with the tea. She told her that there would be piano playing later on. She begged Mae to forgive her. "She even," said the West in telling the story, "offered to let me play with the damn thing."
• • Mae West: Was promised a doll • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • Paul Novak [24 February 1923 — 14 July 1999] • •
• • Born Chester Rybinsky in Baltimore on 24 February 1923, Mae West's live-in lover was thirty years her junior. He entered physique contests as Chuck Krauser.
• • They met and became acquainted when Charles Krauser, George Eiferman, Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski, Dick DuBois, Dominic Juliano, Joe Gold, Armand Tanny, Gordon Mitchell, and Mickey Hargitay were among the star bodybuilders in West's chorus for all (or part) of the show's three-year run.
• • Chuck Krauser changed his name again, becoming Paul Novak, Mae's main man for the next 24 years. The Mae West Blog remembers him on his birthday, February 24.
• • On Saturday, 24 February 1912 • •
• • "Show Girl Heard Smacks in Newark, N.J." • •
• • A New Jersey reporter wrote: May (sic) West, a former show girl, now a detective, figured prominently as a witness in the hearing today before Vice-Chancellor Stevens in the cross-suits for divorce brought by George M. Rusling and Nettie R. Rusling. The husband alleges infidelity and the wife charges abandonment. Rusling names A.D. Tooley, a Brooklyn restaurant keeper, as correspondent.
• • According to Miss West's testimony last March, she was called upon to don her gum-shoes and solve a deep mystery. She was employed in the Rusling home (58 South 13th St.), as a maid. Mrs. Rusling, according to the testimony, did not know that Miss West was a sleuth or she would have fired her in a minute.
• • Note: The detective agency Mae West was attached to was operated by her father. Mae was 18 years old when this trial was in progress but only 17 when she was first hired as a housemaid in the Rusling residence in March of 1911.
• • Source: New Jersey Morning Telegraph; published on Saturday, 24 February 1912.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Would you like to see Clark Gable as Mae West’s screen lover? It’s an idea that Modern Screen is sure would please the fans and—well, the question is put up to you all to answer.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  “No gold-digging for me. I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Daily mentioned problems with pictures starring Mae West.
• • Insiders' Outlook columnist wrote: Paramount and Metro have two troublesome women on their hands. At Paramount, it's a gal named Mae West. At Metro, a more platinum blonde named Jean Harlow. Both producers are thinking hard what they can do about them in the light of the church movement.
• • Insiders' Outlook columnist wrote: Take either one or both, if you like, and imagine La West or La Harlow in a sweet and virginal "Little Women" type of role. It would be funny. Their producers recognize in these two players the public's association with well-defined characterizations. They argue tickets are bought on that basis. But it is a basis which church forces do not like. What to do about them is major and tough to solve. ...
• • Source: Motion Picture Daily; published on Monday, 16 July 1934
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,677th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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